last case

Tang Xin supported his glasses with his hands. His slender and strong fingers were perfect. It was hard to imagine that such hands would always deal with the dead.

Tang Xin casually picked up a book on the table, and said: "It is said that the memory of a fish is only seven seconds, and after seven seconds, it will not remember. , Every inch of the place you swim becomes a new world.”

After Tang Xin finished speaking, he looked up at Xie Jibai.

Xie Jibai nodded and said, "Xu Zhimo's long narrative poem Ashima."

Tang Xin pointed to the words on the cover of the book, and continued: "In these seven seconds, it keeps reincarnating not for forgetting, but for remembering."

Many people have heard of this poem, although they will not memorize it completely, but it is not unfamiliar.At least those who are sitting here know more or less.

However, when they heard this poem before, they might feel melancholy and romantic, but now, when Tang Xin reads these lines to a book written by a perverted murderer, it makes people feel a little creepy.

Tang Xin said: "After I received the transfer order, I have read all these books. There are several questions, which make me feel very strange."

Xie Jibai didn't speak, but looked at Tang Xin very intently.The rest of the people also looked at him, waiting for him to continue his analysis.

Tang Xin said: "I won't talk about the strange killing methods in it. There are two main problems. The first is that these novels are incomplete, not because they lack the chapters in the back, but in the front. Six volumes ago , did not appear, and five volumes are missing. The second is the name of the book, why is it called the memory of the fish? An extremely clever murderer, the book he wrote carefully, according to his character, it is impossible to choose an unsatisfactory title, that would be too imperfect. Destroying any detail would be fatal to him."

Xie Jibai nodded and said, "I've also thought about this problem. Maybe the title of the book doesn't echo the content at all, but has more profound meaning."

"It's not for forgetting, but for remembering." Tang Xin said, "Perhaps the murderer meant that."

Liu Zhihui scratched the back of his head, looked at Qin Xu with a pensive expression on the opposite side, and asked in a low voice, "Xiao Qinzi, do you know what the deputy team and Tang Forensic Doctor are talking about?"

Qin Xu rolled his eyes, glanced at him, then shook his head deeply, and said, "I don't understand."

Tang Xin explained: "If the murderer really just wants to show off his 'great achievements', then he can give his book a different name, a name that is more appropriate to the content of the murder, and a name that is more creepy. But the murderer did not .”

Xie Jibai said: "There is a disease called short-term memory loss, which is memory loss caused by brainstem damage. This kind of person, like the fish in the poem, can only store memory for 24 hours, or 1 minute, or even It's a shorter time."

Tang Xin added: "What is missing in this condition is short-term memory. Things that happened a long time ago can still be remembered. Moreover, the possibility of complete recovery from this disease is very low, and it can only slow down the symptoms."

Chen Yancai opened her eyes wide in surprise, and said, "Is there still such a situation? It means that this murderer is a person suffering from short-term memory loss?"

Xie Jibai shook his head and said, "It's just a guess, but it's not certain."

Tang Xin said: "You can retrieve the information and check the list of patients suffering from this kind of short-term memory loss in recent years. I don't know if it will be helpful."

Chen Yancai immediately patted the table and said, "That's right, I'm starting work now, I'll check this."

Xie Jibai said: "I'll go later, I asked you to investigate another matter, how is it?"

At this mention, Chen Yancai was a little frustrated, and said, "I didn't find anything at all, and I didn't find anything on the Internet."

Xie Jibai pondered for a while, and said, "I still have to keep looking."

Chen Yancai nodded.

The murderer's new volume of novel has been sent to them. According to the murderer's usual style, it seems that he has already started. It is clearly written in the book that there is already a victim, who should be between 25 and 30 years old. , a woman in a white dress, the body is likely to be abandoned in the wilderness, and the suspect is likely to be a taxi driver.

However, so far, no one has reported the crime, and they have not found any bodies.

Qin Xu couldn't help but said: "Deputy team, the murderer is not playing with us this time, is he?"

Before Xie Jibai had time to speak, he heard a "bang" from the office door, and someone walked in quickly.

He was a tall, sharp-looking man.

Everyone's eyes lit up immediately, and they said, "Boss, you're back."

Chen Wanting walked in and said, "There's no need to look for it, the body has already been found."

Xie Jibai was the first to ask, "Did you find it? Where is it?"

Chen Wanting waved his hand and said, "Let's go, let's talk on the way."

Everyone stood up with a "hula", but Xie Jibai spoke again and said, "Chen Yancai, you stay here and continue to talk to Forensic Doctor Tang just now."

Chen Yancai suddenly had a bitter face, and said, "I also want to follow along."

But time was running out, no one answered her, and she was the only one left in the room...

Chen Wanting drove the car and rushed to the scene of the crime.

"I just received a call that someone found a female corpse in the suburbs, wearing a white dress. The identity of the female corpse cannot be confirmed yet, but it is very similar to the situation described in the novel." Chen Wanting said while driving.

The accident took place in an old industrial area in C City. After half an hour's drive, he was about to leave the boundary of C City.

It's a bit desolate here. Some of the factories from many years ago have been relocated and some have been abandoned. Basically, it is almost a deserted place, and it looks extraordinarily desolate and deserted.

The first person who found the body was a man, not a local from City C, but a man who drove over to meet his friends online. Because he didn't know the way, he left two toll gates early when getting off the expressway, and ended up in this deserted area. Come outside.The man originally wanted to stop the car and find someone to ask for directions, but he didn't know that there was no living person, but he suddenly saw a dead body.

The woman's body was abandoned in a place overgrown with weeds, where a colleague had already arrived first, and a yellow cordon was pulled up, and no one was allowed to approach.

The jeep turned off when it came close, and everyone jumped out of the car immediately and got into the cordon to see the situation.

Xie Jibai was still wearing his immaculate white gloves. He got out of the car and got into the cordon. He immediately smelled a rancid smell, the smell of a corpse. It seems that this female corpse was abandoned in the wilderness The time is not short.

Xie Ji Bai didn't like this smell, but he had to take a deep breath to calm his beating heart.His throat rolled, as if in spasm.The faster you breathe, the more you smell that rancid smell, it's like an endless loop.

The female corpse was wearing a white dress and had long hair, other than that, it was really hard to make out.

It was a bloody face, completely invisible, and her body was incomplete.The weather is a bit muggy now, this is the suburbs, and there are many insects and ants, which will greatly damage the corpse.Moreover, there seemed to be wild dogs infested here, and the corpse had obvious signs of being bitten and dragged.

Xie Jibai looked at the bloody corpse, breathing faster and faster, he could already clearly hear his own panting, the voice of the colleague next to him seemed to be a little blurred.

20 seconds.

Xie Ji Bai quickly raised the cordon, then ran to the side, half-bent, with one hand on his knee and the other covering his mouth, looking retching.

As a forensic doctor, Tang Xin was squatting next to the corpse at the moment, facing the corpse with the most professional expression, and his colleagues helped him prepare for a preliminary examination of the corpse.

Tang Xin was taken aback by Xie Jibai's actions, and couldn't help but look back.

Xie Jibai squatted there for a long time, that posture made his waist look thinner, and it could almost be broken by a gust of wind, making him look very fragile.

Seeing corpses will vomit, in fact, many raw melon eggs will have it, and it is not uncommon for girls to be scared and cry.But to Tang Xin's surprise, this did not match the Xie Ji Bai he had heard.

Tang Xin frowned.

Chen Wanting glanced back at Xie Jibai, and said to them, "You guys are here, I'll go and see Xiaobai."

Liu Zhihui was a little worried, and said, "Is the deputy team feeling unwell today?"

Chen Wanting shook his hand, then got out and walked towards Xie Jibai.

Xie Jibai heard the footsteps and didn't turn his head. He squinted his eyes and stared at the weeds beside his feet.

Chen Wanting handed him the mineral water in his hand, reached out and patted his shoulder, and said, "Are you okay?"

"I'm sorry," Xie Jibai said, "I lost face to the boss."

"What do you say to me? Don't force yourself. If you can't do it, go back to the car and sit for a while." Chen Wanting said.

Xie Jibai said: "No, it's okay, it's just that just now..."

Xie Jibai spoke halfway, stood up straight, patted the corner of his clothes with white gloves, and said: "There is no problem now, don't worry, boss."

"Okay." Chen Wanting patted him on the shoulder again, and walked back with him.

Tang Xin looked back again, Xie Jibai had already returned, his expression was calm, but his face was very pale.

Xie Jibai said, "Doctor Tang, how is the situation?"

Tang Xin didn't look up again, frowned slightly, and said, "Give me another 5 minutes."

Xie Jibai nodded and said, "Send all the photo information to Chen Yancai, and let her check the identity of the deceased."

Qin Xu said, "Okay."

Xie Jibai said again: "Where is the dead man's bag?"

"What bag?" Chen Wanting asked.

Xie Jibai walked around the corpse twice, but he didn't find what he was looking for, and said: "It is mentioned in the novel that before the accident happened to the deceased, he met his long-lost friends, and after dinner, he was on his way home. something happened."

Xie Jibai thought for a while, and then said: "Her dress has no pockets, so she should have a bag. Even if she doesn't have a larger bag, she must have a wallet. And her mobile phone ..."

When Xie Jibai said this, he couldn't help being startled for a moment, he quickly took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and dialed a number uncertainly.

After an interval of about two and a half seconds, behind them, there was a burst of sharp cell phone ringing.

Everyone subconsciously looked down at the mobile phones in their pockets, but it was obviously not their mobile phones that were ringing, because the voice seemed a little far away, and the sound was also a little strange, with an unusual hoarseness, which made people shudder.